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Neon Demon, The (18)

Neon Demon, The (18)

Drama, Horror, Thriller

When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.

The critical consensus

The Neon Demon pulls off the unique feat of being both boring and bravura all at once. Like the world it depicts, it’s a feast for the eyes but little else.

***(*)(*)Ian Freer, Empire Online, 17/06/2016

A shallow, slow-burn horror that takes an age to get to the strong meat but looks good doing it.

***(*)(*)Jamie Graham, Total Film, 04/07/2016

It is elegant and juvenile, shocking and satirical by turns.

****(*)Geoffrey MacNab, The Independent, 06/07/2016

Suspend your thirst for narrative and lose yourself in eye-popping cinematography.

****(*)Christopher Hooton, The Independent, 06/07/2016

A second viewing accentuates the depraved menace of Nicolas Winding Refn’s thriller, and Elle Fanning’s excellent performance as a girl devoured by beauty.

****(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 07/07/2016

The Neon Demon looks stunning and is alluring enough to keep you watching until director Nicolas Winding Refn decides to go for broke with necrophilic sex and eye-popping horror. Not for the faint-hearted.

**(*)(*)(*)Allan Hunter, Daily Express, 08/07/2016

Driven by the same guilty pleasures that have long underpinned Refn’s work, making him both the darling and bête noir of auteur arthouse cinema – the beauty and the beast.

****(*)Mark Kermode, The Observer, 10/07/2016


Features about Neon Demon, The (18)

Nicolas Winding Refn & Elle Fanning interview: The fantasy and familiarity of The Neon Demon's vicious womanhood

Clarisse Loughrey, The Independent, 01/07/2016

Inside the weird world of The Neon Demon

Natasha Braier, The Guardian, 04/07/2016

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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